Henry Rollins Quotes
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There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.
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Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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A rose trapped inside a fist.
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The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
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Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
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Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
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There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
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I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
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I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.
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As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
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I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
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Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.